David Bowie Quotes - Page 16

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• I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

  David Bowie

  New York, Would Be, Strange

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• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Years, Cynical

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

  David Bowie

  Brother, People, Majority

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House

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• I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Levels, Blokes

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

  David Bowie

  World, Helping, I Can

  Song: I'm Afraid of Americans, Album: Earthling, 1997

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• My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Father, Class

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Strong, Sex

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• Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

  David Bowie

  Lying, Bullshit, Hills

  Song: Buddha Of Suburbia, Album: The Buddha Of Suburbia, 1993

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• The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

  David Bowie

  Character, Ancient, Ancient History

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Europe, Stuff

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wglt.org. 2002.

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• Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Rocks, Growing

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• I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

  David Bowie

  Age, Relax, Aliens

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• I'm afraid of Americans.

  David Bowie

  Song: I'm Afraid of Americans, Album: Earthling, 1997

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• What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

  David Bowie

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

  David Bowie

  Children, Fall, Feelings

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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